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News Articles from the University of Maryland's Department of Animal and Avian SciencesenAAAS Announces Dr. Iqbal Hamza as a 2017 Fellow http://ansc.umd.edu/news/aaas-announces-dr-iqbal-hamza-2017-fellow
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/p177274_1938813126_3.jpg?itok=rtdV9SdJ" width="498" height="283" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p id="docs-internal-guid-4a67bbf1-e4ea-161a-1d46-a686ec4a92b5" dir="ltr"><strong><a href="/node/114">Dr. Iqbal Hamza</a> of the University of Maryland has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Dr. Hamza was elected for groundbreaking discoveries and distinguished contributions on the biochemical and cell biology mechanisms underlying heme and iron trafficking and their regulation.</strong></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Anemia affects more than a quarter of the global human population. Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia, making the study of iron metabolism a field with a large public health footprint. “Most people have heard of hemoglobin and know it is important to your blood. We make hemoglobin by using heme which we get from iron in our food; over 70% of the iron in our body is in hemoglobin. But, we don’t even know how the heme gets into the globin to create hemoglobin. This is a fundamental biochemical question with far-reaching public health impact,” said Dr. Hamza. By understanding the mechanisms around iron metabolism and heme production and transport, Dr. Hamza is ultimately working to understand, prevent, and treat anemia caused by iron deficiency, as well as to kill common parasites that feed on heme supplies through improved drug development. This is the goal of Dr. Hamza’s 15-year career as a Professor at the University of Maryland in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>When Dr. Hamza joined the University of Maryland and was asked what he wanted out of his career, he said, “I want to be able to look back and say I solved a major scientific problem in an imaginative and creative way. That is how I started studying heme and iron metabolism,” explained Dr. Hamza. “So little was known about the mechanisms, and I wanted to tackle a challenging problem head on.” When Dr. Hamza first started this journey, it was unknown how heme moved around the body because these mechanisms were so difficult to study. Since humans and common model organisms like mice and yeast create their own heme, it made it difficult to track transport patterns and distinguish what heme was made inside the body, or what heme was coming from outside sources like diet. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>To address this issue, Dr. Hamza started studying these processes in bloodless worms called </span><span>Caenorhabditis elegans</span><span>. “These microscopic worms don’t make their own heme, but they need it to survive and are a great genetic model to study anemia. They are also transparent, making it easy to observe transport processes in an actual living organism,” said Dr. Hamza. This opened up the entire field to the groundbreaking discoveries in heme transport and signaling that Dr. Hamza is being honored for. He currently has grants from the National Institute of Health which include studying mutations in humans with defects in heme transport, how organs communicate with one another to signal when they need heme, how parasites steal heme from hosts, how to block parasites with pharmaceuticals to improve human and animal health, and how to develop sensors to track iron and heme movement in living cells and tissues. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>“Being a AAAS Fellow is a great honor to me because it essentially tells me that my peers and colleagues appreciate the science we are doing here,” said Dr. Hamza. “To me, science is about exploration and adding to a new body of knowledge. I feel like a kid in a candy shop. I’m so excited coming to work each day because I just don’t know what I’m going to discover.” </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal </span><span>Science </span><span>(</span><a class="ext" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/"><span>www.sciencemag.org</span><span class="ext"><span class="element-invisible"> (link is external)</span></span></a><span>) as well as </span><span>Science Translational Medicine</span><span>, </span><span>Science Signaling</span><span>, a digital, open-access journal, </span><span>Science Advances</span><span>, </span><span>Science Immunology,</span><span> and </span><span>Science Robotics</span><span>. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. </span><span>Science</span><span> has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>This year’s AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News &amp; Notes section of the journal </span><span>Science</span><span> on November 24, 2017. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, February 17 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Central Time at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. For more information, see</span><a class="ext" href="http://www.aaas.org"><span>www.aaas.org</span><span class="ext"><span class="element-invisible"> (link is external)</span></span></a><span>.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dec 6, 2017</div></div></div>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:22:58 +0000keigmina704 at http://ansc.umd.eduNickolas G. Zimmermann, Ph.D. (1950-2017)http://ansc.umd.edu/news/nickolas-g-zimmermann-phd-1950-2017
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img class="left" src="/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/_images/uploaded/NZ_remsberg_11100411843.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="425" /><strong>Dr. Nick Zimmermann</strong>, retired Associate Professor and Poultry Specialist, passed away on September 29 after many years battling a brain tumor. Dr. Zimmermann earned his B.S. in 1972 and MS.in 1975 from the University Wisconsin, Madison and was awarded a joint Ph.D. in poultry science and veterinary science from UW in 1981. From 1994-2002 he worked at the Lower Eastern Shore Research &amp; Education Center in Princess Anne, Maryland as a Broiler Extension Specialist at the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences of the University of Maryland. In 2002, he came to the College Park campus as a Poultry Specialist in the department and taught Avian Physiology, Animal Food Safety and Processing, and Commercial Poultry Management. </p><p class="m_-6801607958205504353gmail-MINEReg">Dr. Zimmermann was a member of the Poultry Science Association since 1973, and served as Secretary-Treasurer from 2006–2009. He published over 50 manuscripts and abstracts in <em>Poultry Science</em> or <em>Journal of Applied Poultry Research (JAPR)</em>.</p><p class="m_-6801607958205504353gmail-MINEReg">Dr. Zimmermann provided leadership for the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Conference and was the treasurer for the Maryland Feed Industry Council. He was active in many Delmarva Poultry Industry activities including the annual Chicken Festival and the Delmarva Poultry Conference. He served as the Superintendent of the Maryland 4-H Poultry Judging Contest and was active in the Small Flock Owner Educational Program.</p><p class="m_-6801607958205504353gmail-MINEReg">A member of American Poultry Historical Society since 1995, he served on the Board of Directors (1997-2005) and as president (2004-2006) and received the American Poultry Historical Society Award in 2010.</p><p>Memorial services for Dr. Zimmermann are being planned for Maryland and Wisconsin. For updates on the memorials and to send on-line condolences please visit <a href="http://www.boundsfuneralhome.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.boundsfuneralhome.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1507648420157000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvhIwSLNU_4AII0vGk8R_NjMielQ">www.boundsfuneralhome.com</a>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Oct 9, 2017</div></div></div>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:14:40 +0000keigmina689 at http://ansc.umd.eduKim awarded a $1.39 million R01 granthttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/kim-awarded-139-million-r01-grant
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/461.jpg?itok=te0lPvHu" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><a href="/node/117">Dr. Byung-Eun Kim</a> has been awarded a $1.39 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH (NIDDK/NIH) for his R01 grant proposal entitled, “Systemic Copper Homeostasis Regulation in Mammals.”</strong></p><p class="m_-7641258106308862500gmail-MINEReg">Copper (Cu) is an essential trace element for normal growth and development. The dysregulation of Cu homeostasis causes severe human diseases that include Menkes disease, Wilsonʼs disease, myeloneuropathy, and cardiomyopathy. Cells have evolved sophisticated homeostatic mechanisms for the regulation of Cu acquisition and distribution, and organs communicate to ensure that Cu is distributed appropriately throughout the body, balancing cellular requirements.</p><p class="m_-7641258106308862500gmail-MINEReg">All organismal Cu must pass through the intestine prior to distribution to other tissues. Therefore, cross-communication must take place among tissue types to ensure that Cu import and export from the intestine are coordinated with extra-intestinal tissue Cu requirements. In this project, Dr. Kim has proposed an inter-organ regulatory mechanism for Cu homeostasis, as the cardiac-specific knockout mouse of the high-affinity Cu importer, Ctr1 exhibited dramatically elevated levels of the ATP7A Cu efflux pump in the liver and intestine, suggesting the existence of an organismal level Cu sensing signal that communicates a cardiac Cu deficiency to the primary site of Cu storage and uptake organ. </p><p class="m_-7641258106308862500gmail-MINEReg">The studies in this project aim to uncover cellular and inter-organ Cu homeostasis mediated by Cu transporters using a combination of mouse physiology and <em>C. elegans</em> genetics to allow better diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by Cu imbalance. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sep 26, 2017</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:12:45 +0000keigmina687 at http://ansc.umd.eduFaculty/Staff Cookoff 2017http://ansc.umd.edu/news/facultystaff-cookoff-2017
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/WinnersCookoff2017.jpg?itok=nCN-Haqm" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>The Annual Faculty/Staff Cookoff was held on September 14 in the concourse and had 19 cooks pitted against each other for prize ribbons and four trophies for Best of Dairy, Pork, Poultry, and Beef – new this year. Many students came out to get a taste of the delicious entries and use their marbles to vote for their favorites. Here are the winners:</strong></p><p><strong>The Main Dish:</strong></p><ul><li>1st place: Pigs on the Pasture - Byung Kim</li><li>2nd place: It's Not My Birthday But My Food's Homemade - Monica VanKlompenberg</li><li>3rd place: Apple Harvest Chicken - Janice Barber</li></ul><p><strong>Side Dish:</strong></p><ul><li>1st place: Cheesy Bacon Corn Dip! - Victoria Lake Pearlman</li><li>2nd place: First class food in a village somewhere in the world - Cranberry chicken dip - Zhengguo Xiao</li><li>3rd place: Coxinha - Francine Vercese</li></ul><p><strong>Dessert:</strong></p><ul><li>1st place: Chocolate Lasagna - Kasey Moyes</li><li>2nd place: Fearless Dessert Bars - Amy Burk</li><li>3rd place: Very Dairy Berry Cheesecake Trifle - Carol Keefer</li></ul><p><strong>Winners of the Best of Categories:</strong></p><ul><li>Dairy: Amy Burk</li><li>Pork: Victoria Lake Pearlman</li><li>Poultry: Zhengguo Xiao</li><li>Beef: Chad Stahl </li></ul></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-sidebar field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div about="/content/stafffaculty-cookoff-2017" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="ds-1col node node-sidebar view-mode-full clearfix">
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sep 15, 2017</div></div></div>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:31:10 +0000keigmina682 at http://ansc.umd.eduDr. Tom Porter Awarded a $500K grant from National Institute of Food and Agriculturehttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/dr-tom-porter-awarded-500k-grant-national-institute-food-and-agriculture
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/T.Porter2017.jpg?itok=zWEzXHDo" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><strong><a href="/node/127">Dr. Tom Porter</a> has been awarded a five hundred thousand dollar grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for his grant proposal titled "Mitigation of heat stress in broiler chickens through early-life thermal conditioning."</strong></div><div><strong> </strong></div><div>Heat stress in chickens can occur in the summer, when temperatures often exceed 95°F in the regions of the United States where most broiler chickens are raised. Notable effects of heat stress on broiler production include increased death of chickens in the flock and reduced feed intake and growth by the birds that survive. In addition to the financial costs, heat stress in commercial poultry operations represents a serious issue of animal well-being. Thermal conditioning using temporarily elevated brooding temperatures during early development imparts long-term resistance to heat stress in broiler chickens, so that they can survive and grow at higher temperatures during a heat wave. However, the underlying mechanisms of early-life thermal conditioning are unknown. In this project, Dr. Porter and his colleagues in the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences and at North Carolina State University will perform a comprehensive physiological analysis of the effects of heat stress, with and without prior thermal conditioning, across multiple tissues that are likely to play a role in the bird’s metabolic and stress responses to heat stress. This project will provide new information on body temperature regulation required to develop future strategies for improving the well-being of poultry, while sustaining or improving broiler meat production during summer heat waves.</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sep 14, 2017</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:36:54 +0000keigmina681 at http://ansc.umd.eduANSC Welcome Celebration!http://ansc.umd.edu/news/ansc-welcome-celebration
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/WelcomeSlide.jpg?itok=xyH9ur-z" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sep 5, 2017</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:09:16 +0000keigmina678 at http://ansc.umd.edu2017 Cookoffhttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/2017-cookoff
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/2017Cookoff.jpg?itok=-Ny675UR" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>Faculty and staff are answering the call to compete in the 2017 Cookoff with their very best dessert, main, and side dishes. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to come taste the entries and vote on who should be awarded the blue, red, and yellow ribbons and the places of honor on the department cookoff plaque.</span></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Aug 17, 2017</div></div></div>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:10:18 +0000keigmina674 at http://ansc.umd.eduDr. Tom Porter and Dr. Laura Ellestad Awarded a $500K grant from National Institute of Food and Agriculturehttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/dr-tom-porter-and-dr-laura-ellestad-awarded-500k-grant-national-institute-food-and-agriculture
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/NIFAgrant.jpg?itok=YBwYwhmZ" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><a href="/node/127">Dr. Tom Porter</a> and Dr. Laura Ellestad have been awarded a five hundred thousand dollar grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for their grant proposal titled "Mechanisms affecting posthatch growth following embryonic induction of growth hormone in broiler chickens."</strong></p>
<div>In this project, Dr. Porter and Dr. Ellestad will define the mechanisms regulating the chicken’s production of its own growth hormone and the effects of its own growth hormone on meat production and feed efficiency in broiler chickens. Their specific objectives are to (1) characterize effects of premature growth hormone production resulting from corticosterone injection into the incubating eggs on the growth performance of broiler chickens, (2) determine the effect of corticosterone injection on metabolic indicators, hormone levels, and gene expression in broiler chickens, and (3) identify key mechanisms within the growth hormone system of chickens. Completion of this research will lead to the identification of new information that can be used in breeding programs and the poultry industry to produce more food for the growing world’s population. This award marks 24 years of funding from the United States Department of Agriculture for Dr. Porter's research into the hormonal control of growth in broiler chickens.</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Jul 6, 2017</div></div></div>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:35:38 +0000keigmina670 at http://ansc.umd.eduAlum Kathleen (Hughes) Hartman in the newshttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/alum-kathleen-hughes-hartman-news
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><strong><span><img class="left" src="/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/_images/uploaded/Kathy%20with%20koi%20in%20basket--cropped%20%2872%20dpi%203%20in%29.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="228" />A former graduate student in <a href="/node/244">Dr. Joe Soares</a> laboratory, Kathleen (Hughes) Hartman is now a national leader in the field of aquaculture. Dr. Hartman is the Aquaculture Program Leader for USDA/APHIS Veterinary Services and was featured in an article in "Fish Farming News."</span></strong></div>
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<div>Dr. Hartman received her MS from the University of Maryland and both her DVM and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. She has served two consecutive terms on both the AVMA’s Food Safety Advisory Committee and the Aquatic Veterinary Medicine Committee. Dr. Hartman is a current member of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) and Past President of the U.S. Aquaculture Society.</div>
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<div><a href="/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/_images/uploaded/AlumArticle.pdf"><strong>Read full article&gt;&gt;</strong></a></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Jun 30, 2017</div></div></div>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:43:41 +0000keigmina669 at http://ansc.umd.eduSunny Awarded $1.86 million R01 Granthttp://ansc.umd.edu/news/sunny-awarded-186-million-r01-grant
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://ansc.umd.edu/sites/ansc.umd.edu/files/styles/large/public/_images/news/SunnyGrant.jpg?itok=RGOeqe4U" width="498" height="233" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><a href="/node/636">Dr. Nishanth E. Sunny</a> has been awarded a $1.86 million grant from the </strong><strong>National Institute of Diabetes &amp; Digestive &amp; Kidney Diseases</strong><strong>,</strong><strong> NIH (NIDDK/NIH) for his R01 grant proposal entitled, “Metabolic Origins of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.” </strong></p>
<p><span>In this project,<span class="m_-6616626063171396774gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Dr. Sunny<span class="m_-6616626063171396774gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>and his collaborators will probe for</span><span> novel mechanisms through which dysfunctional mitochondrial oxidative metabolism promotes inflammation, oxidative stress and progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Defects in mitochondrial oxidative metabolism are central to the etiology of NAFLD, a major public health problem affecting over 70% of the obese and type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. The impact of these studies will be towards identifying key strategies to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation during NAFLD, specifically by attenuating dysfunctional mitochondrial oxidative flux. These strategies will provide a better paradigm to treat NAFLD and type 2 diabetes mellitus.</span></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Jun 22, 2017</div></div></div>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:35:00 +0000keigmina668 at http://ansc.umd.edu